Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery gets taken over by three town schools

Pupils from Severndale Specialist Academy supported by pupils from Wilfred Owen Primary School and Mary Webb School as they took over Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery today

Luke Baker worked in the Visitor Information Centre and Museum shop and said: “Everything has been good. I liked taking people’s money and learning how to use a scanner.”

Luke Roberts and a team of young people curated a WWII exhibition. Luke said: “I am the one that shows people the old toys’ and my role was important because I can tell people how delicate the toys are. I can get to show people the old toys and how exciting they are.”

Sonny and Marley took over the museum and art gallery’s Mini Mammoths pre-school session. They chose to read Owl Babies and created a song and dance routine to accompany the story. Sonny enjoyed leading the session so much he said: “I want to do this as a job when I’m older so we can show the children a bright future.” Marley said Takeover day had been a great success because: “Severndale have shown Shrewsbury how talented we are.”

Conner Tinsley, Charlotte Evans, Mollie Fairbanks and Alfie Bailey on Meet and Greet had a great day. Charlotte said her role was important because: “visitors might not know where the museum is and they might not know where to go. I enjoyed holding the door for the old people and prams.”

The museum & art gallery have already started planning next year’s Takeover Day and plan to make our event bigger and better. “We will be attending a whole school celebration assembly next week to watch a film made on the day and hand out Kids in Museums certificates,” said Fay Bailey Learning & Communications Manager Shropshire Museums.

Sabrina Hobbs, Principle of Severndale praised the museum staff and said: “Thank you for opening your doors to us to run such a brilliant event.”